A Factotum for Headless Factorio!

A python manager to deploy and run headless factorio servers. By: Brian Ballsun-Stanton, Andrew Ardill, and James Zhao

Released under the GPL v3 License, 2016. No warranty of any kind, folks.

Installation:

On ubuntu 14.04/16.04:

sudo apt update && sudo apt install python3-pip -y && echo /opt/factorio > $HOME/.factorioPath && sudo pip3 install factotum && factotum fulldeploy && source $HOME/.bashrc

On other systems:

sudo pip3 install factotum

Usage:

• factotum --help

  • This provides all Factory Factotum commands.

• factotum COMMAND --help

  • This provides help for each Factory Factotum command.

• factotum fulldeploy

  • Runs install, authenticate, newmap, setup.

• factotum install

  • Installs factorio (default /opt/factorio, override with a new path in ~/.factorioPath)

• factotum authenticate --username <Username>

  • Gets your authentication token from factorio servers so your password isn't stored in plaintext.

• factotum newmap

  • Generates a new map from a config file in FACTORIOHOME/config/mapsettings.json

• factotum setup --servername "Server Name Here" --description "Server Description Here" --tag "Tag 1" --tag "Tag n"

  • Configures the settings.json file including setting a password of 4 diceware words.

• factotum factorio start

  • This starts the factorio headless server in daemon mode with latest save.

• factotum factorio stop

  • This asks the headless server to stop. Politely. It will take some time and will likely report failed.

• factotum factorio status

  • This reports on the status of the server.

• factotum rcon /help

  • This sends commands into an already running server started by factotum.